1819 in France explained

Events from the year 1819 in France.

Incumbents

6 April - 21 June - French slave ship Le Rodeur sails from Bonny in West Africa to Guadeloupe in the West Indies; in the course of the transatlantic voyage all onboard become blind, and slaves are thrown overboard as a consequence.^[3]
May: enactment of the Serre laws, which governed press freedom for much of the nineteenth century^[4]
12 May – Trial begins in Paris of Marie André Cantillon and Joseph Stanislas Marinet accused of involvement in the plot to assassinate the Duke of Wellington the previous February. Both men are ultimately acquitted.
25 August – An Exposition promoting French industry opens at the Louvre, attracting over a hundred thousand visitors over the next month.^[5]

Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) is first exhibited at this year's Salon in Paris.

10 January - Pierre Édouard Frère, painter (died 1886)
31 January - Jean-Augustin Barral, agronomist (died 1884)
7 February - Augustin Marie Morvan, physician, politician and writer (died 1897)
15 February - Louis Figuier, scientist and writer (died 1894)
1 March - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris (died 1908)
6 March - Émile Blanchard, zoologist and entomologist (died 1900)
4 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau, writer and lexicographer (died 1906)
19 April - Marie Firmin Bocourt, zoologist and artist (died 1904)
29 May - Louis, duc de Decazes, statesman (died 1886)
10 June - Gustave Courbet, painter (died 1877)
28 June - Henri Harpignies, painter (died 1916)

19 October - Ardant du Picq, Colonel and military theorist (died 1870)
19 November
- Émile Deschanel, author and politician (died 1904)
- Auguste Vacquerie, journalist and man of letters (died 1895)
22 December - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, mathematician (died 1892)

6 July - Sophie Blanchard, balloonist, first woman killed in an aviation accident (born 1778)
18 July - Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, geologist and traveller (born 1741)
1 August - Pierre-Adrien Pâris, architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
29 October - François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, novelist (born 1761)
24 December - Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Marshal of France (born 1742)

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